As a holistic science, phenology provides a framework to not only explore connections between climate and phenomena but also presents an opportunity to explore the connections among worldviews. Here we share a vision, developed in the Indigenous Phenology Network, told through the voices of early career and established scholars, of the relationships between the human and nonhuman communities and interweaving of Indigenous and western ways of knowing. This vision centers our responsibilities, and highlights opportunities to collaborate equitably while honoring diversity. Indigenous resilience includes language restoration, food sovereignty, and intergenerational knowledge transfer happening in concert, which embodies holistic perspectives unique to localized communities. In this symposium, we explore each of these topics through the lens of plants or animals tied to our communities. Through appropriate engagement, ecologists can find common interests and do science that supports Indigenous resilience. With its emphasis on close observation, pattern recognition and seasonal cycles, phenology as a field of study is a rich ground for western-trained ecologists to begin to engage with Indigenous communities and knowledges. This session offers the audience a scope of initiatives and approaches in this work for a collective impact for all.